to bob, to move about uncertainly as a floating item moves about on the surface of water or some other liquid / to be undecided or uncertain / to pause or hesitate due to indecision, to dally, to dawdle

Alternative form of 揺蕩う (tayutau)

the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 揺蕩(たゆた)う (tayutau, “to bob, to move about uncertainly; to be undecided or uncertain; to pause or hesitate”).

the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 揺蕩(たゆと)う (tayutou) (see tayutai above)

bobbing, to moving about uncertainly as a floating item moves about on the surface of water or some other liquid / the state of being undecided or uncertain

document

letter

book / write / composition

historian

(Internet slang, especially anime and manga fandom) events or things from the past which one wants to whitewash/erase from history (due to it being embarrassing, poorly received, etc.); dark past